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Author Spotlight: Traditional Chinese Medicine for Sleep Disorders in Acute COPD — A Safe, Cost-Effective Approach
Published on: October 18, 2024
Diagnosing sleep disordered breathing in patients with chronic pulmonary disease: which test for which patient?
Léo Grassion1,2, Jésus Gonzalez-Bermejo1,3, Isabelle Arnulf4,5
1Sorbonne Université, INSERM, UMRS1158 Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique, Paris, France.
Abstract:
Overnight polysomnography should be the first-line diagnostic test in patients with severe respiratory disease. However, if access to polysomnography is limited, overnight polygraphy can be used as an alternative first-line diagnostic. https://bit.ly/3KlmFED.
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